Dutton Clan in Utah

We had a fabulous time with the Dutton family in Salt Lake City, UT this past weekend. It was Mason's 30th birthday and we finally got to meet Baby Kampton! He's a doll! 6 months old already and they're just hanging in there hoping for a non-waking night.

Laura will be going back to work part time in a few weeks and is getting excited.

Shelby loved Major and Kaylee, but definitely preferenced little Kaylee dog.

Uncle Mason teaching Shelby how to "fight like a man"

Shelby was the cutest with Kampton. Here, he told me he wanted to hold Kampton and then said, "Mommy, I'm a big brother!" (Brother came out like "brudder") LOL! You wish, Little Man.
Laura and I took the kids to the Aquarium on Sat while the guys did their thing. Who'd have thought I'd have to be a mere few feet from a boa and a python in this place! We sat through a program and out come these guys! For those who know me well, you know my reaction: Sweat...Heartattack....Tears.....

I had to keep it together not to scare Shelby or the other kids. FREAK OUT!
The wall paintings were beautiful!
Hey, what are you looking at?

Precious little Kampton!Friday night we put the kids to bed and paid a sitter to be there, the four adults headed to a ski resort where we rode the chair lift to the very top and back, while checking out the full moon. We were freezing...correction, Laura and I were freezing....but we had a great time!

Gorgeous sunset from their balcony prior to leaving.

Shelbster needs to take rock climbing class. He'd have gone all the way to the top, if I'd had let him! Here he's screaming, "Big rock!"
Thanks for a great time, guys! Can't wait till you come here next year. I know you enjoyed San Fran, but now Kampton can too!

Flashback Laughs

LOL!!!! Wow, time really flies.

BLUE OCTOBER!!!!

Stacy and I went to a Blue October concert Saturday night with our neighbors, Hollie & Aaron Grimm. We had a blast!!!!! I was seriously on cloud 9! I've been a Blue October fan since the fall of 1999. The concert was PHENOMENAL! One of their best ever. They did an acoustic encore and I was blown away. Justin was cool, as always, after the show. I asked the band to sign my collage above and Justin made a sweet remark about it. He gave me a side hug saying, "Aw, you're so sweet. Thanks!" We talked to him about watching him back in Aggieland and all the places we'd seen them play and he was so nice to seem overly grateful that we've been long time supporters. How down to earth!

While I was TOTALLY geeked out! (Notice rediculously big smile on my face) And, I'll admit, I cried when Stacy showed me the pick he got from Ryan, the violinist, when he threw it into the crowd. It's now autographed and I'll be making a Blue October shadow box.

Me & HolzStacy & Aaron being sillyJeremy is Justin's little brother and the drummer. He was the first one out and soooo nice to go through the crowd, signing autographs and being so polite and grateful for everyone's attendance. Their mom (whom I've also met in the crowd at a concert long ago) needs some serious kudos for raising such sweet boys!

Ryan was refusing to take pics, and we didn't get close enough beyond autographs handed over the crowd to get photos with CB or Matt.

Crinkle Nose

Shelby has been cracking us up with this whole crinkle nose/attitude thing. I wanted to showcase this shot, in case you didn't notice it in the slideshow. We're not sure where he gets it, so feel free to tell us which of us makes this face. But it's hysterical!The other time he makes the face is when he's confused or thinking hard. If I ask him a question and he doesn't readily know the answer, he'll say, "Um...(make smacking noise with tongue)...I tink.....um......I dunno!" At "dunno" comes this face.

Haircut and Lolipop Saturday

Shelby and I had a fun day on Saturday. We went to get his haircut, and he knows that means he gets to pick out candy. After some serious deliberation, he settled on his usual - gummy worms. Off to Supercuts. She tried to tell me his hair is still too fine to spike it.

We went home and proved her wrong by spiking up the doo and performing a Lolipop photo shoot. I picked my top 6, but MANY more can be seen in the slideshow above, if you have a few minutes.

Peek-A-Boo, I see you!

Tehya's in Texas

On Sunday we left the Jones Family and headed on the long trek to Tehya's house. Shelby was so excited to get there and see his horsey! His horse is Cheyenne, but he claims Easy. Easy and another of the horses had babies.

On Monday morning, I caught Stacy and Shelby enjoying the hummingbirds outside. So sweet.

Hey Guys!
Then, off we went to Glenn Rose where there was an exotic animal exhibit. Shelby had a great time with all the live animals walking up to your door! Actually, we all had a blast.

Here's the first friend we met. It's the one Shelby tells everyone here about first, "I saw Ostrich!" He remembers him well, because the Ostrich was very aggressive and as he was coming towards the window, I realized I needed to roll it up or he was going to stick his head in and peck me! It caught me off guard and I started laughing so hard I was paralyzed for the moment. I had tears pouring down my face from cracking up, but Shelby thought I was crying so he started screaming from up front in Daddy's lap. Tehya gave up on me and rolled the window up from her controls. By the ride out, we had to go back by them and let Shelby know they were okay and their funny grins meant they were happy to see us.Shelby liked feeding the deer and baby deer next. They seemed much less scary.

These ugly wilderbeats reminded us of Lion King.

Hey, can I get some privacy, please? Tryin' to piss here, Buddy.

I wish I could remember what half these animals were called, but this guy was my fav. So beautiful!

As ugly as the wilderbeats were the Emu.

Giraffes! Just like here at the zoo, the giraffes were a car favorite. They would eat right out of your hand!

Tehya treated us to lunch at this cafe that looked out over the property there. Very pretty.

Near the cafe was the kids activity place. Shelby found out he's as tall as a cheetah! I was as tall as an Emu. Stacy was as tall as a white rhino.

Clearly no resemblance, Babe, no worries!

I still can't figure out where this Emu's head has gone! I've even zoomed into the photo. I'm sure if it was a headless Emu exhibit we'd have left running and screaming.

Shelby's height double.

On the way out, Tehya promised Shelby that when he's old enough, we'll go see the Dinosaur World close by. For now, he was content to sit on the advertisement close to his Tehya!
Back at home, we got some nice rain. With the rain came FROGS!
I had to send Shelby with a note to school detailing our adventure so they didn't think the kid had lost his mind to the Texas heat when he went on and on about, "I go to Texas and I see horses, cats, turkey, ostrich, rhinosaurus, giraffes....." Sure glad I did! Apparently that's exactly what he did.

THANK YOU for a fabulous time, Tehya! Looking forward to you talking Papa John into coming out here for a visit!